Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN?GENERAL PHILIP KEARNEY Amongst the diversified characters whom the call to arms had assembled in Troop F was a young Englishman named Frederick Hillier. He was born and bred in the City of London, and he had used his strong powers of observation amid the various phases of life around him to such purpose that he had become a sort of a refined Sam Weller. His comicality was expressed chiefly by cartooning and by the singing of comic songs, but he possessed the power also of good racy conversation. He was, therefore, in constant demand for the amusement of his comrades. I had been associated with him in several ways, both in and beyond Camp Relief, and was greatly pleased when he and I were detailed as special orderlies in Washington to Major-General John Pope. In The Army Under Pope, by that excellent chronicler, John Codman Ropes, of Massachusetts, we learn the reasons which induced the sorely perplexed administration to appoint General Pope to the command of the Army of Virginia: The attitude of General McClellan was disliked on many points by President Lincoln’s Cabinet. His political affiliations were distrusted; his extreme caution, so far as his own movements were concerned, his easy confidence when the matter at stake was the safety of Washington, his startling plan of removing the army to the Peninsula, all combined to awaken alarm and to deprive him of that cordial support which his great undertaking required in order to be successful. Stonewall Jackson had used up Banks in the Valley of the Shenandoah and had then been placed by Lee in command of the left wing of the Army of Northern Virginia, followed by the turning movement of our right, and which resulted in the abandonment of our base on the Pamunkey and the est…